African American women
American slavery
antebellum era
Bahia
black women
Brazil
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class system
Colonial Spanish America
colored women
Cuba
emancipated women
emancipated women in United States
enslaved persons
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female enslaved persons
female slaves
free women of color
free women of color business
free women of color Caribbean
free women of color farming
free women of color in southern United States
free women of color in the United States
free women of color Latin Ameri
free women of color Latin America
Guadelupe
history of African American women
interracial marriage
interracial marriage in the 1700s
legal status of free women of color
manumission
manumission in the United States
manumission of African American slaves
manumission of black women
manumission society
maroon women
Martinique
New Orleans
Peru
property holders
Puerto Rico
racial identity
sexual exploitation
slavery
Suriname
women of color
women of color history
women of color in Bahia
women of color in Brazil
women of color in Puerto Rico
women of color property holders
Product details
- ISBN 9780252029394
- Weight: 594g
- Dimensions: 152 x 235mm
- Publication Date: 03 Nov 2004
- Publisher: University of Illinois Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Hardback
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Emancipation, manumission, and complex legalities surrounding slavery led to a number of women of color achieving a measure of freedom and prosperity from the 1600s through the 1800s. These black women held property in places like Suriname and New Orleans, headed households in Brazil, enjoyed religious freedom in Peru, and created new selves and new lives across the Caribbean. Beyond Bondage outlines the restricted spheres within which free women of color, by virtue of gender and racial restrictions, carved out many kinds of existences. Although their freedom--represented by respectability, opportunity, and the acquisition of property--always remained precarious, the essayists support the surprising conclusion that women of color often sought and obtained these advantages more successfully than their male counterparts.
David Barry Gaspar is a professor of history at Duke University. He is the author of Bondmen and Rebels: A Study of Master-Slave Relations in Antigua. Darlene Clark Hine is Board of Trustees Emeritus Professor of African American Studies and History at Northwestern University. Her books include Black Women in White: Racial Conflict and Cooperation in the Nursing Profession, 1890-1950. Together they have edited More Than Chattel: Black Women and Slavery in the Americas.
